Professor Cherif Bassiouni, one of the country's foremost experts on the political and social context of the Middle East, will provide a briefing on the context and significance of the dramatic and unprecedented events that have been taking place the past few months in this key region of the world. Professor Bassiouni is a distinguished Professor Emeritus of Law at DePaul University and has been enlisted by our government and the United Nations to take on a number of sensitive and important missions in that part of the world.